1. The two new methods have been implemented:
a. BOPAlgo_Tools::EdgesToWires - allows creating planar wires from edges.
The input edges may be not shared, but the output wires will be sharing the coinciding vertices and edges.
It is possible to skip the sharing if the input edges are already shared by passing the corresponding flag into the method.
The input edges are expected to be planar, but the method does not check it. Thus, if the input edges are not planar, the output wires will also be not planar.
In general, the output wires will be non-manifold and may contain free vertices.
b. BOPAlgo_Tools::WiresToFaces - allows creating planar faces from the planar wires.
In general, the input wires are non-manifold and may be not closed, but should share the coinciding parts.
The wires located in the same plane and completely included into other wires will create holes in the faces built from bigger wires
These two methods combined allow building faces from set of edges randomly located in 3D space.
2. The DRAW command *edgestofaces* has been implemented.
3. The documentation has been updated with the new section in Modeling Algorithms - Topological Tools.
4. Test cases for the issue.
Fix for bug 23640.
Merging the rest of Technical Overview content into User's Guides.
-Correct UG sections concerning Sewing.
-Correct comments in the code referring to old location of sewing algorithm.
unrelated changes: Unused unit OpenCL removed from UDLIST
All articles revised
README revised
comments are allowed in FILES.txt
Add gendoc.sh for Linux
Added option -s to set search engine of the HTML documents
Added 3rdparty_building docs for different platforms
help message removed from bat&sh scripts (left within tcl script)
tableofcontents added for all huge articles;
gendoc.bat doesn't change PATH variable
jpgs converted to pngs and unused pngs removed
logo displaying of pdf files fixed
Automatic detection of OCCT version number added to occtdoc.tcl
OCCT version within pdfs is got from Standard_Version.hxx; copyright changed
pdf generation process removes latex dir now
GIF images converted to PNG in technical_overview;
references fixed (incorrect reference to wok and cdl didn't touch; redundant latex option removed
Tutorial moved from Overview and made top level page
LICENSE.md moved from dox/overview to dox folder
Section related to OCCT building refactored and simplified.
WOK and CDL explicitly declared as deprecated.
OCCT documentation (Overview and User Guides) has been converted from MS Word files to text-based MarkDown format and added to OCCT sources, in the new subfolder 'dox'. The HTML and PDF articles can be generated from the sources using Doxygen and MiKTeX. See the file OCCT_Docs_HowTo.md for details on the new documentation system.
This branch includes:
- new folder structure for Open CASCADE documentation
- sources of almost all OCCT User Guides and Overview
- tcl and bat scripts, which allow to generate HTML and PDF articles
